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1) Bluebeard
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Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol brings the shocking true story of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru to the screen. Landru is a seemingly respectable Parisian who devises a sick and ingenious scheme to supplement his dwindling income during the First World War. First, he lures wealthy dowagers to his villa. Then, he cons them into forking over their fortunes. Finally, he kills them, chops them up and immolates the pieces.
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When a hired killer crosses paths with a suicidal shirt salesman, the resulting calamity makes for one of the funniest, most original films ever. Ralf Milan has come to Montpellier to fulfill a "contract" that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. As Ralf waits for the man in his hotel room with gun in hand, he notices something very strange in the attaching room next door: Franöis...
3) Viva Maria!
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"When two women, both named Maria, accidentally invent the striptease circa 1910, they become such a hit that enthusiastic audiences strip along with them. But when one of the Marias fall for a handsome revolutionary, she finds that she has accidentally embroiled the two of them in an armed peasant revolt"--Container.
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Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance at life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news. The film starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies, a quintessential example of poetic realism, one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema.
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Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuilade (Les vampires) in 1913. Andre Hunebelle (OSS 117 : mission for a killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantomas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience. All three films starred the great Jean Marais (Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast) as Fantomas, a criminal mastermind and man of a thousand faces. The three films co-starred Louis...